Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios -- Table of Contents -- Mahara 1.2 ePortfolios -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Time for action-Heading -- What Just Happened? -- Pop quiz- Heading -- Have a go hero-Heading -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. What Can Mahara Do for Me? -- Portfolios go electronic -- Towards an ePortfolio-enabled future -- Ways of using Mahara -- Case study one: Punam from Pennytown Primary -- Case study two: Janet Norman from Pharmaceuticals International Inc. (PI Inc.) -- Case study three: Neil from Training 4 Work -- Time for action-looking at some real-life Maharas -- What just happened? -- Why Mahara? -- Personalized learning -- Reflective learning -- Collaborative learning -- Pop quiz- what is important to you in an ePortfolio? -- Join the Mahara community -- Time for action-registering and exploring further -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz- learning about http://mahara.org -- Have a go hero-pressing the buttons till it hurts -- Summary -- 2. Getting Started with Mahara -- Registering with a Mahara site -- Time for action-registering onto the demonstration site -- What just happened? -- Logging in for the first time -- Time for action-logging in -- What just happened? -- Mahara's user interface-finding your way around -- A word on Mahara themes -- The main menu and submenus -- Site blocks -- The footer -- Setting up your own profile -- Profile information -- Editing your profile -- Time for action-editing your profile -- What just happened? -- Profile icons -- Time for action-uploading your profile icons -- What just happened? -- Editing your resumé goals and skills -- Time for action-editing your resumé goals and skills -- What just happened?.

Pop quiz- understanding your profile information -- Have a go hero-doing more with your profile information -- Your profile page -- Time for action-viewing and investigating your profile page -- What just happened? -- The profile page wall -- Some more profile page examples -- Adding a text box to your profile page -- Time for action-creating a text box for your profile page -- What just happened? -- Options in the text editor -- Time for action-editing a text box by adding a hyperlink -- What just happened? -- Taking the formatting and editing one step further -- Time for action-adding an image to your text box -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 3. Add Files and Blogs to Your Portfolio -- Putting your files online -- Mahara replaces the USB stick -- Time for action-adding some folders and files to your Portfolio -- What just happened? -- Giving structure to your folder tree and branches -- Copyright -- Upload limit -- Moving and deleting files -- Uploading more than one file -- Time for action-multiple file upload -- What just happened? -- Using tagging to organize your files and search for them -- Pop quiz- files, folders, and tagging -- Have a go hero-start setting up your files, folders, and tags -- Blogging -- What is a blog? -- Time for action-creating your first Mahara blog -- What just happened? -- Embedding an image in your blog post -- Pop quiz- blogging in Mahara -- Have a go hero-go on... get reflecting... -- Linking to files, folders, and blogs in your Profile Page -- Time for action-linking to files, folders, and blogs in your Profile Page -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 4. Views -- What are Views in Mahara? -- Time for action-creating and laying out your View -- What just happened? -- Adding/removing columns from your View -- Time for action-changing your View layout -- What just happened? -- Time for action-adding View details.

What just happened? -- View access -- Time for action-editing your View access -- What just happened? -- Making a View copyable -- Deciding who can access your View -- Time-limiting access -- Pop quiz- creating a View -- Editing your View once you have created it -- Have a go hero-edit your View -- Blocks -- Copying Views -- Time for action-copying a View -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz- copying Views -- View feedback -- Time for action-feedback on a View's content -- What just happened? -- Best practice example-multi-page view -- Time for action-linking Views together to make a multi-page View -- What just happened? -- Assessing the quality of your View -- View quality checklist -- Aesthetics -- Content -- Have a go hero-make a top quality View -- Summary -- 5. Working in Groups and Interacting with Friends -- Groups -- Time for action-creating a group -- What just happened? -- Group types -- Open membership groups -- Request membership groups -- Invite only groups -- Navigating your new group -- Time for action-opening up and navigating around your group -- What just happened? -- The groups shortcut sideblock -- Have a go hero-set up some new groups and create their About pages -- Joining an open membership group -- Time for action-joining a group in maharaforbeginners.tdm.info -- What just happened? -- Managing your group members -- Time for action-removing group members and changing roles -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz- creating Mahara groups -- Group forums -- Time for action-creating a forum -- What just happened? -- Forum moderation -- Managing your forum -- The exciting bit: Forum topics -- Forum discussion frameworks -- Time for action-adding a discussion topic -- What just happened? -- Naming forums and their topic subjects -- Posting to a topic -- Time for action-replying to a topic post -- What just happened?.

Pop quiz- group Forums -- Group files -- Group views -- Finding Groups -- Time for action-finding and joining a group -- What just happened? -- Joining a request membership group -- Time for action-requesting to join a group -- What just happened? -- Accepting/Denying requests to join a group -- Making friends! -- Time for action-finding friends and adding them to your list -- What just happened? -- Responding to a friend request -- Managing your friends -- Time for action-filtering and removing friends -- What just happened? -- Summary -- 6. Site Settings and Exporting Your Portfolio -- Preferences -- Time for action-changing your preferences -- What just happened? -- Changing username and password -- Friends control -- HTML editor -- Messages from other users -- Show controls to add and remove columns when editing a view -- Maximum tags in cloud -- Preferences in the right sidebar -- Notifications -- Time for action-managing your notifications -- What just happened? -- Watchlist -- Activity preferences -- Time for action-choosing your activity preferences -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz-activity types -- Have a go hero-play with different preference and settings -- Exporting your portfolio -- Time for action-exporting your portfolio -- What just happened? -- HTML website export -- LEAP2A export -- Pop quiz- Export -- Have a go hero-Show off your portfolio by exporting to HTML website -- Summary -- 7. Institution Administrators, Staff Members, and Group Tutors -- What is an institution? -- Administering an institution -- Time for action-adding users to your institution -- What just happened? -- Bulk uploading users to your institution -- Time for action-adding institutional users by CSV -- What just happened? -- Editing user account settings -- Time for action-finding a user and suspending them -- What just happened?.

Masquerading as another user -- Managing member roles in your institution -- Time for action-managing your institution's members, staff and admins -- What just happened? -- Configuring your institution's settings -- Dealing with admin notifications -- Institution views and files -- Views -- Files -- Pop quiz- managing an institution -- Less learner-driven aspects of Mahara -- What is a course group? -- Case study -- Time for action-setting up a Course: Controlled Membership group -- What just happened? -- Publicly viewable groups -- Tutors -- Time for action-adding a Tutor to your course group -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero-set up some course groups -- Submitting work for assessment -- Time for action-submitting a view to a course group for assessment -- What just happened? -- Time for action-releasing a view submitted for assessment -- What just happened? -- Putting it all together into an assessment process -- Time for action-an example assessment process with Mahara -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz- Course Groups, Staff Members and Tutors -- Summary -- A. Mahara Implementation Pre-Planner -- What's involved with a Mahara implementation? -- ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION -- DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION -- EVALUATION AND CONTINUATION -- Analysis and Specification -- Deciding if Mahara is right for you -- Collecting, organizing, selecting -- Reflecting, testing, verifying, and planning -- Representing and publishing -- Administrating, implementing, adapting -- Usability -- Understanding your own specific needs and working conditions -- Concept 1: Purpose -- Concept 2: Learning Activity Design -- Concept 3: Processes -- Concept 4: Ownership -- Concept 5: Disruptive Nature -- Choosing between a Mahara partner-supported site or your own installation -- Scoping out your implementation plan -- Decide on your implementation timeframe.

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